Comments on: Versioning RESTful Web Services http://eikonne.wordpress.com/2008/05/18/versioning-restful-web-services/ All and sundry Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:35:06 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: RESTful Versioning « Ka anyi kwuo okwu http://eikonne.wordpress.com/2008/05/18/versioning-restful-web-services/#comment-39 RESTful Versioning « Ka anyi kwuo okwu Fri, 30 May 2008 15:28:51 +0000 http://eikonne.wordpress.com/?p=37#comment-39 [...] 30 05 2008 I commented on RESTful versioning as a response to Peter William’s post on the same subject matter as I [...] [...] 30 05 2008 I commented on RESTful versioning as a response to Peter William’s post on the same subject matter as I [...]

]]> By: Eb http://eikonne.wordpress.com/2008/05/18/versioning-restful-web-services/#comment-34 Eb Mon, 19 May 2008 13:47:39 +0000 http://eikonne.wordpress.com/?p=37#comment-34 Ha. What a silly mistake! Thanks for your response. I guess I'm saying that Web Application can (and maybe should) be RESTful in nature and hence need to use (XHTML) which can probably be versioned just as XML or any other content type would be. Ha. What a silly mistake! Thanks for your response.

I guess I’m saying that Web Application can (and maybe should) be RESTful in nature and hence need to use (XHTML) which can probably be versioned just as XML or any other content type would be.

]]> By: Peter Williams http://eikonne.wordpress.com/2008/05/18/versioning-restful-web-services/#comment-33 Peter Williams Mon, 19 May 2008 06:06:58 +0000 http://eikonne.wordpress.com/?p=37#comment-33 The target consumer of most of the web services, REST or otherwise, I have ever created or used has not been the browser. Rather it is usually a custom program, or ten, consuming those services to do some other useful work for the organization. If you are creating a web application it should by all means support HTML representations. But if you are creating a REST/HTTP service it will almost certainly need more semantically rich representations of the resources it exposes. Oh and BTW, my name is Peter Williams not Peter Lacey. I am rather honored to have been mistaken for someone that smart and well written, though. :) The target consumer of most of the web services, REST or otherwise, I have ever created or used has not been the browser. Rather it is usually a custom program, or ten, consuming those services to do some other useful work for the organization.

If you are creating a web application it should by all means support HTML representations. But if you are creating a REST/HTTP service it will almost certainly need more semantically rich representations of the resources it exposes.

Oh and BTW, my name is Peter Williams not Peter Lacey. I am rather honored to have been mistaken for someone that smart and well written, though. :)

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